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...Justice: Viscount Chifuyu Watanabe, banker and newspaper owner...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JAPAN: Advent of Shishi | 7/15/1929 | See Source »

...received his diploma from Viscount Grey of Falloden, Chancellor of the University, statesman, bird-lover, fly-caster. In presenting the diploma Viscount Grey recited a long discourse in Latin ripe with many a classical pun. Myopic, he could not read the speech, was forced to memorize it. Toward the end his memory failed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Canonibus Dawsiensis | 7/8/1929 | See Source »

...Also announced last week were the customary "dissolution honors," bestowed by King George at the request of the outgoing Conservative ministry. Sir William ("Jix") Joynson-Hicks, fussy Home Secretary in the Baldwin Cabinet, whose battles against Prayer Book revision and sex novels have made him a national caricature, became Viscount Brentford. Viscount Peel (Rt. Hon. William Robert Wellesley Peel), onetime Secretary of State for India, was gazetted an earl...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Gnome in Ermine | 7/8/1929 | See Source »

...peerages were onetime First Lord of the Admiralty William C. Bridgeman, Col. Sir Edward A. Brotherton, Sir Robert Sanders, Sir William Tyrell, Newspaper Owner Sir William Ewert Berry. The Order of Merit was conferred upon Poet Laureate Robert Bridges, Novelist-Dramatist John Galsworthy. An earldom was granted to Viscount Inch-cape of Strathnaver (shipping...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Abscess | 6/10/1929 | See Source »

...maroon cravats. Princess Mary wore pink. The Queen, wearing blue and the royal pearls, was vexed by a noisome blue bottle fly on the window pane. Taking a sheet of paper she squashed the offender, after four tries. Edward of Wales talked with his father, not his mother. When Viscount Lascelles lingered in the window, a voice in the crowd chirped: "'Oo wants to see 'IM?'' After ten minutes the Queen spoke decisively to the King and royalty withdrew from sight...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: The Crown | 6/3/1929 | See Source »

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